Remote Full-Stack Engineer I/II: Build Scalable Platforms

BNSF Railway; United States; On-site; USD 93,750 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Comprehensive benefits package

Health and wellness programs

401(k) and retirement

Parental and family benefits

Job summary

BNSF Railway’s tech division is seeking a junior engineer to help bridge vision and reality by transforming rail logistics into scalable software products. You will contribute across platform, product, and enterprise teams to deliver high-impact projects that improve freight movement.

As part of the team, you’ll develop and deploy software for core freight operations, write robust tests, and participate in design reviews to share best practices.

Qualifications

• Authorized to work in the US.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a related field OR 2 years of software development relevant experience without a Bachelor's degree
• Experience programming in at least one modern language (e.g., Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, etc.)
• Experience with developing, testing and deploying high quality software in production systems
• Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience with secure coding practices
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams and communicate with stakeholders
• Experience participating in design reviews, incident retrospectives, or RFC processes
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technical concepts and to adapt to new technologies quickly
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Write production-quality code for well-defined tasks.
• Follow team coding standards and processes.
• Participate in design reviews to learn best practices.
• Write and maintain unit/integration tests.
• Debug and fix straightforward issues.
• Seek feedback proactively and apply it to improve.
• Develop APIs, automation, and tools to improve platform integration.
• Build and maintain monitoring and alerting systems for services.
• Collaborate with application teams to enhance reliability and performance.
• Design and operate scalable systems across data centers, edge devices, and the cloud.
• Work with BNSF teams to create products that improve rail network operations.
• Innovate in distributed computing and drive industry transformation.
• Build solutions for high-speed, large-scale predictions on distributed systems.
• Solve broad challenges by coding effective solutions in an agile environment.
• Demonstrate operational excellence by monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues, including participating in a 24/7 on‑call rotation.

Skills

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Observability stacks

Secure coding practices

Cross-functional collaboration

Design reviews participation

Learning new technologies

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

2 years of software development experience

Tools

React

Angular

Node.js

Spring Boot

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

BNSF Railway’s tech division is seeking a junior engineer to help bridge vision and reality by transforming rail logistics into scalable software products. You will contribute across platform, product, and enterprise teams to deliver high-impact projects that improve freight movement.

As part of the team, you’ll develop and deploy software for core freight operations, write robust tests, and participate in design reviews to share best practices.